// Global Analysis Archive
The source argues that China’s late-2025 Justice Mission exercises mark a qualitative escalation by normalizing PLA and China Coast Guard activity inside Taiwan’s contiguous zone, eroding a key buffer short of territorial waters. This shift increases miscalculation risk, strengthens blockade-rehearsal signaling, and exposes a gap in partner messaging that has not explicitly addressed the new operational threshold.
The source describes China’s late-2025 Justice Mission exercises as a qualitative escalation due to significant PLA and China Coast Guard activity inside Taiwan’s contiguous zone. This pattern may erode a key de-escalation buffer, raising miscalculation risk and enabling incremental redefinition of the cross-strait operational status quo.
The source argues that China’s late-2025 Justice Mission exercises mark a qualitative escalation by normalizing PLA and China Coast Guard activity inside Taiwan’s contiguous zone, eroding a key buffer short of territorial waters. This shift increases miscalculation risk, strengthens blockade-rehearsal signaling, and exposes a gap in partner messaging that has not explicitly addressed the new operational threshold.
The source describes China’s late-2025 Justice Mission exercises as a qualitative escalation due to significant PLA and China Coast Guard activity inside Taiwan’s contiguous zone. This pattern may erode a key de-escalation buffer, raising miscalculation risk and enabling incremental redefinition of the cross-strait operational status quo.
| ID | Title | Category | Date | Views | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RPT-621 | PLA Drills Shift the Pressure Line: Taiwan’s Contiguous Zone Becomes the New Flashpoint | Taiwan Strait | 2025-08-25 | 0 | ACCESS » |
| RPT-367 | China’s Taiwan Drills Shift Toward Contiguous-Zone Normalization | Taiwan Strait | 2025-07-17 | 0 | ACCESS » |